Our Open Data and Semantic Web workshop is coming up next Friday 13th November in London, kindly sponsored by Talis.
In preparation for the workshop, we have started a Linking Open Data group on CKAN, our open-source registry of open data, based on the new group feature we announced last week. We currently have 83 Linked Data packages listed, which you can see at:
If you know of any datasets we should add, please consider adding them to CKAN! If you’d like to become an administrator for the LOD group, please get in touch.
We have also converted all of the CKAN data to RDF and loaded it onto Talis’s Connected Commons platform (which was launched earlier this year at OKCon 2009). This can be queried at:
Related posts:
- Data.gov.uk Launched – and it’s Using CKAN The UK Government’s public sector data site launched last week in a private beta — and it’s using CKAN as its backend for storing all its dataset info! They’ve got more than a 1000 existing data sets, from 7 departments,...
- Virtual meeting for Working Group on Open Data in Science Next Tuesday 2nd June the Working Group on Open Data in Science will have their first meeting. While the meeting will focus on the Working Group’s activities, anyone is welcome to participate. Details are as follows: When: 2nd June 2009,...
- CKAN 0.7 Released Just in time for our upcoming workshops a new version of CKAN (v0.7) is ready. It provides some major improvements including: Convert to use SQLAlchemy and vdm v0.3 (v. major) Atom/RSS feed for Recent Changes Package search via name and...

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The licensing data display is misleading. Instead of showing a red X for missing information, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to show a question mark (?) or some other symbol to let them know what’s going on?
Currently you have to dig through several screens to figure out that a bunch of these entries just got created without any license information at all. That’s not the same thing as “not open.”
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